Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2010

  As reported in Wired magazine a few months ago, Musk bought the former NUMMI manufacturing plant valued at $1 billion from Toyota for $42 million. This week, his other company, SpaceX, became the first commercial company in history to put a spacecraft in orbit and bring it back to earth. 

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Madoff Investment Securities LLC, the financial derivatives market collapse, Toyota concealing owner reports of sudden acceleration (resulting in a USA man sentenced to prison) and the BP Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill? History is littered with defunct companies who failed to recognize this. impact the competitive arena.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

The lasting legacy of its learning from Toyota was building the capabilities to act quickly once they realized they had a problem. The danger is that their management approaches cannot sense or respond to shocks. Organizational managers and leaders should be worrying about fragility in the face of such shocks.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Among the problems: Agassi "effectively committed to a business model before he even settled on a name" and didn''t bother to hire people with management or automotive experience. might similarly manage a delicate dance with the oceans. According to many, he also packed an unhealthy amount of hubris.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The future success of Zipcar may rely as much on the strength and speed of those trends as it will on the effective management of the company. Air Wick Freshmatic has since become the most successful new product in the company's history. Embracing BEMIs. Exploiting BEMIs. That blockbuster success did not come cheap.

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Trends Short-term Resistance Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2013

In his recent HBR blog post , Ron Ashkenas argues that the reason most change management initiatives fail is due to stunted managerial capability to implement change. However, I believe that there''s a deeper, more fundamental problem with the way we frame the whole notion of change management. Change management Managing people'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

That mindset is due partly to the obvious advantages of China's huge labor force and partly to Chinese businesspeople's sense of their country's unique history. Chinese entrepreneurs tend to hold the view that they shouldn't follow in the footsteps of foreign multinationals, that they should pursue a "Chinese" way of doing business.

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Entrepreneur Core Competence Stress Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

You may recall that NUMMI was a joint venture of Toyota and GM, where Toyota took over one of GM''s worst plants and turned it around with a new management system — using many of the same people and the same unions. First, a little relevant history: In the 1950s economic expansion drove growing demand for appliances.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

The field of operations has gone through some major evolutions over its history. This led to the establishment of service management and service operations as core subjects in the operations field. After all, the management of information has always been the key to operating excellence.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

However, what few people realized was that Microsoft leveraged an old but often overlooked tool that has remarkable power to manage such transitions. Over the centuries, firms have used hybrids to manage periods of difficult transition.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

In our research into more than 8,000 companies in 20 countries, 79% of organizations reported that their management practices were above average. companies, and fewer than 5% elsewhere, scored above a 4 on a five-point management-practices scale we created. That should have been very good news. You really are above average!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

The ideas that floated to the top then entered a second step: an evaluation at which a combination of Quirky’s management and community made the final selection decision. As the history of firms like Toyota and Apple have taught us, to produce high quality products requires continued attention and improvement of many details over time.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

This moment in the long arc of history launched a change-the-world movement that never existed before, including change-the-world vocations on a major scale — from the Peace Corps to an explosion in the growth of opportunities in the nonprofit sector, which employs more than 10 million people today.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

When we talk to managers about what their workers are lacking, we hear a common refrain: “We need employees who can think, not just follow orders.” The only way to thrive, or even survive, these managers conclude, is to find workers who can co-create value with customers and constantly improve operations. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

Large companies such as Toyota and Sony were forced to halt production not because of damage to their own factories, which were quickly checked and ready to go back online, but because they were dependent on a small number of parts from suppliers in Tohoku. The most serious failure, though, has been the management of TEPCO.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

Managers are well aware that Moore’s Law, the idea that the number of transistors on a practical-sized chip doubles every 18 months, has brought us a bounty of cheap computing power, leading to smartphones, tablets, fitness trackers, cloud-based services like Facebook and Uber, and on and on.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Quality control became a cornerstone of industry in Japan, reshaping the country’s national brand around companies known for manufacturing excellence, such as Toyota, Canon, and Nikon. Each party on a blockchain has access to the entire database and its complete history. Distributed Database.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Unlike the TCJA, which the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) estimates will add the full amount of corporate savings to the federal deficit, a health care stimulus bill would offer far greater corporate savings with no net impact on the federal budget. For example, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Lin Dachun, the VP and general manager of the automobile electronics unit, cheered. Granted, we don't have a long history in cars like Nissan does, but our power electronics engineering is every bit as good. One person wasn't smiling. At last," the chairman had said, "we have a foothold in the electric vehicle market.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Toyota’s integrated and highly collaborative supply network, celebrated for its leanness and resilience , illustrates that such ecosystems can be built by traditional manufacturing companies. Yet such ecosystems are not just the purview of web companies.

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